I’m doing some preliminary work for a media archaeology project involving a geneaology of economies of knowledge and ‘know how’. I came across the below. From Manning Clark‘s History of Australia: From on of the first settler accounts A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson (1793) available through the University of Sydney’s Australian […]
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Worked
I am creating a wiki database of all my magazine research. I have called it ‘Worked’, which is the working title of the book I am working on. The first step will be to transfer over all the info from my excel databases.
Eventalization and Popular Culture
Below is an edited extract from my dissertation. In it I discuss my use of Foucault’s historical method, which I term, following Foucault, ‘eventalization’. It does not include any of the actual historical work and is selected from roughly 15 pages of one chapter. Plus, to conform to the blogging form, some of the footnotes […]
Archival references
I am fixin up the diss for submission. One of the issues I have had are the scholarly references versus archval references. How have other people addressed this? I have kept them separate with archival references footnoted and scholarly references author-dated. The footnote rferences are all over the shop in terms of format and that […]
Early Magazines of Australian Modified-Car Culture
It was around 1962 that Al Crouch (East Coast Auto Parts) started a small publication called Hot Rod Digest and I submitted some rod type cartoons and suggested that perhaps he could use some Victorian write ups and club and drag articles. Hot Rod Digest went for about six issues and went into a publication […]